Carmine (color)

Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red color. Some Rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep red color shown below as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.

Carmine

The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English was in 1523. ^[1]

Carmine in human culture

Crime Scene Investigation

The name is often applied to descriptions of blood, because it is the color of dried blood.

Music

Carmine is one of the colors mentioned in Donovan's Wear Your Love Like Heaven Wear Your Love Like Heaven

Sports

Carmines is occasionally used as a nickname for the Boston Red Sox.
Carmine is an original colorway of the Air Jordan VI sneaker from 1991.

Television

The color of the Redshirt (character) of Star Trek's shirts is Carmine. In addition, as a play on this, a quickly-dying soldier in Gears of War is named Carmine.

Shades of red
Amaranth	Auburn	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Cerise	Chestnut	Crimson	Dark red	Electric crimson

Fire brick	Flame	Folly	Fuchsia	Lust	Magenta	Raspberry	Red	Red-violet	Redwood

Rose	Rosewood	Ruby	Rust	Scarlet	Terra cotta	Tuscan red	Vermilion	Wine

The samples shown above are only indicative.

References

^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192 Color Sample: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample K5 (Note: The color sample matches the color shown above as Rich Carmine.)